Re: tlug: Moving a web server

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:37:07PM +0000, Darren Cook wrote:
> >If the change they are planning is to move a web site to a machine with
> >another IP address, I suggest running the sites in parallel until
> >all of the previous cached DNS records have expired.
> 
> That means two sets of log files and cgi program data for the transition
> period. But actually joining log files might be easier...

Or configure the old machine to give clients a "permanent redirect" to the
new server during the old one's phase-out.  (That would keep all the
"active" data on the new machine.)

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Jim Tittsler, Tokyo   ICQ: 5981586

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